Raising the floor : how a universal basic income can renew our economy and rebuild the American dream /
Stern, Andy, 1950-
Raising the floor : how a universal basic income can renew our economy and rebuild the American dream / Andy Stern with Lee Kravitz. - First edition. - x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index.
Introduction: Can we invent a better future? -- My journey -- Are we at a strategic inflection point? -- The elephant in the room: technology's impact on jobs -- The new landscape of work -- The dark side of the gig economy -- Wither the American dream? -- En route to a new American dream -- A twenty-first-century solution to a twenty-first-century problem -- Epilogue: Join the conversation #RaisingTheFloor.
"The former president of the Service Employees International Union draws on extensive interviews with economists, labor leaders, bankers and others on how advances in technology are creating better products at the expense of the middle class, outlining strategies focused on a controversial "universal basic income" that provides for near-future needs."--NoveList.
9781610396257 (hardcover)
2016931951
Guaranteed annual income--United States.
Income.
Occupations.
Economic policy.
HC110.I5 / S864 2016
330
Raising the floor : how a universal basic income can renew our economy and rebuild the American dream / Andy Stern with Lee Kravitz. - First edition. - x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index.
Introduction: Can we invent a better future? -- My journey -- Are we at a strategic inflection point? -- The elephant in the room: technology's impact on jobs -- The new landscape of work -- The dark side of the gig economy -- Wither the American dream? -- En route to a new American dream -- A twenty-first-century solution to a twenty-first-century problem -- Epilogue: Join the conversation #RaisingTheFloor.
"The former president of the Service Employees International Union draws on extensive interviews with economists, labor leaders, bankers and others on how advances in technology are creating better products at the expense of the middle class, outlining strategies focused on a controversial "universal basic income" that provides for near-future needs."--NoveList.
9781610396257 (hardcover)
2016931951
Guaranteed annual income--United States.
Income.
Occupations.
Economic policy.
HC110.I5 / S864 2016
330